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glomerular basement membrane (GBM)
Basement membrane of the renal glomerulus.
Size barrier: 70 kD.
Negative charge barrier.
Pathology:
- disorder of the glomerular basement membrane include
- anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
- Alport syndrome
- thin basement membrane nephropathy
- HANAC syndrome
- Pierson syndrome
Related
anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody
thin glomerular basement membrane disease; benign familial hematuria
General
extracellular membrane
kidney structure
References
- Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed)
Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 604
- Wikipedia: Glomerular basement membrane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerular_basement_membrane
- Kashtan CE, Segal Y.
Genetic disorders of glomerular basement membranes.
Nephron Clin Pract. 2011;118(1):c9-c18
PMID: 21071975
Component-of
renal glomerulus; kidney glomerulus